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GILBERT'S "Ota, Afa4*.Tijee4 y^eoiSie^^ 813 - 817 S. Michigan Street I SOUTH BEND'S LARGEST STORE FOR MEN! ^he S^otre Q)ame Scholastic TRIBUTE A National Champion—Notre Dame, in this wartime Disce Quasi Semper Victurus Vive Quasi Cras Moriturus season of 1943, has once again proven herself the capital FOUNDED 1867 city of football. Driven on by the fire of the Notre Dame spirit that flamed to white heat in the Rockne era, the Fighting Irish machine rolled through the toughest schedule in history, a winner. Laboring under handicaps never . before encountered, the men of Leahy sweated under hot summer and fall suns till near perfection was achieved. With most of the squad garbed in the green of the Marine Corps and blue of Navy, less time than ever was devoted to the grasswork of Cartier Field. THE STAFF Afternoon classes, early supper, added scholastic pres­ sure and ineligibility stirred the gridiron caldron to a F. J. Pequigney Editor-in-chief foam of uncertainty. In spirit, however, the team was Ralph Abell Associate Editor Thomas Seedorff Associate Editor solid, a rock. Marines, civilians, sailors—all lost uniform distinction on the gridiron, and this spirit of cooperation, Editorial Staff of oneness, aided swift development into a versatile Robert O'Toole Managing Editor Harold Berliner and John McKeon..„Asst. Managing Editors mechanism of pigskin destruction. Jim Cassidy and Bob Schellenberg "The Week" Time and concurrent events proved them a great Bill Waddington Splinters team, a throwback to the 1924, 1929 and 1930 clubs of Lieut. S. L Beatty. Observations Jim Casey and Buzz Hassett The Green Banner the "Rock"—the brawniest ever to ramble over foreign Dick Murphy ..College Parade fields wearing the green and gold. Experts tabbed them • Al Lesmez Man About Campus the top team of history, coaches heralded them the News Staff super eleven of collegiate competition, American fan- Frank Keenan News Editor dom rained upon them the flora of glory—until the dis­ Al Lesmez Campus Editor aster at Great Lakes. John Keleher Vernon Mikkelson Joe Plante Fair weather friends reversed their compliments; J. D. Usina R. L. Marske James McCarthy jealous observers, waiting for just such a moment, Jim Regan H. G. Gilligan Bill Thompson Paul Wood Leiand James Frank Gleason pounced upon a fallen brother. "Notre Dame is not a Steve Loyacano John Locke Mike Canair champion," cried a minority of the rabble. But the names'of these men of Notre Dame will live Features Al Broton Editor —not because they wear a National crown—but because Al Bisbee Palmer Amundsen H. F. Ziegler they were the Fighting Irish—fighters in victory and James Paris Leonard Hogan Sam Miller fighters in defeat. Triumph does not test the heritage of Art Wagner Ed Madden Harry Tanner a thoroughbred; it is loss that tries his true mettle. ^ Charles Veenstra It is this spirit in these men of Notre Dame that is Sports Staff the spirit of America. It is the spirit of a champion. Bill Carey Editor —By Bill Carey James H. Howard Jim Fennelly Jack Houghteling Joe Murnane Paul Brennan David Scheider John Power Jim Regan Joe Fahey Staff Photographers ^»im^% Al Shaefer Charles Renaud Joe Haller Frank Cacciapaglia ws^. Circulation John Matmiller. Manager Don Cole .Asst. Manager Reverend Charles M. Carey, CS.C ...Faculty Advisor Member of Catholic School Press Association, Associated Collegiate Press, Distributor of Collegiate Digest. Represented for national advertis­ ing by Kational Adverta'sing Service, Inc., 420 Madison Avenue; New York City—Chicago—Boston—Los Angeles—San Francisco. THE SCHO­ LASTIC is published forty times during the school year at the Univer­ sity of Notre Dame. Address all manuscript to the Editor, 305 Sorin Hall or 121 Adminietrstion Bldg., Notre Dame. Indiana.. Staff meetings in the Editorial Rooms, Old Ave Maria Building: Sunday through Wednesday at 7:16 p.m. Facing the most difficult schedule in Notre Dame's long football history, head coach and director of athletics Frank Leahy can look back upon the past season with a true sense of pride. His five year coaching record has now produced 44 victories, five defeats and three tie games. A product of Rockne school of Irish footballers. Leahy was a tackle on the National Champion 1929 eleven. He started his coaching under Tommy Mills at Georgetown, then moved to Fordham where he developed the Seven Blocks of Granite as line tutor under Head Mentor Jimmy Crowley. Succeeding Gil Dobie at Boston College Leahy led the Eagles to the Cotton and Sugar Bowls in successive years. His 1940 eleven on the Heights of Chestnut Hill claimed the National Championship on the basis of an undefeated ten game schedule and a post season victory over likewise undefeated Tennessee. Answering the call of his first love Notre Dame. Leahy once more returned to the shadow of the Dome. The Irish rang up the first undefeated season since Rockne in 1941. the first year of his reign. A 7-2-2 record in 1942 and the National Champion. Irish of 1943 complete the story. Today. Frank Leahy stands out as the outstanding football coach in nation. Frank W. Leahy Director of Athletics and Head Coach of Football COACHING STAFF EDWARD C. McKEEVER football. Devore was assistant freshman coach at Notre Dame in 1934, then accepted a line coach­ Notre Dame's backfield coach is a native of ing job under Jimmy Crowley at Fordham. where Texas, although he spent many of his younger he remained during 1935-36-37. In 1938 he j'ears in Oklahoma. He spent his freshman year became head coach at Providence College in at Notre Dame, but transferred to Texas Tech. Rhode Island, staying there for four years, before where he played regularly in the 1932-33-34 moving on to Holy Cross, where he was assistant backfields under Coach Pete Cawthon. now of to head coach Ank Scanlan. This spring he the Brooklyn Dodger pro team. During those returned to Notre Dame as a line coach. years Texas Tech won thirty out of thirty-five games played. McKeever did most of the passing and called signals as a junior and senior. When WALTER I. ZIEMBA Frank Leahy was made head coach of Boston College in 1939. he appointed "Mac" his back- Wally Ziemba was born in Hammond, Indiana, field coach, and when Leahy came to Notre where he was educated in the public school sys­ Dame in 1941. McKeever came with him. His tem there, and attended Hammond High school. backfields at Notre Dame reflect the calibre of At Hammond High he gained a slate-wide repu­ his coaching. tation as a fine football prospect, and showed his versatility by playing end one year, fullback his second year and tackle in his junior and EDWARD W. KRAUSE senior years. He entered Notre Dame in the Edward C. McKeever Fall of 1939. and played tackle on the frosh The only Notre Dame athlete in history to be team of that year. The following Fall he gained given a special trophy by his fellow students, Ed a varsity tackle berth. In 1941. Coach Leahy Krause climaxed a brilliant career as a Notre shifted Ziemba to center, where he was an im­ Dame player when he was appointed to the Irish mediate success. Last year, in spite of knee coaching staff in 1942. Born and raised in injuries, Ziemba's performance at the pivot post Chicago. Krause won three football, three bas­ was good enough to win him All-American hon­ ketball and one track letters, made All-American ors. Ziemba was given an honorable discharge three years in basketball, and one in football. from the Marines last July because of a physical During his school days he broke all existing Notre disability. Dame basketball scoring records. He coached at St. Mary's College, Winona, Minn, for five years and was line coach at Holy Cross for three years C. I. (Jake) KLINE before coming to Notre Dame. In addition to his football duties. Krause is also head basketball A native of Pennsylvania, Jake Kline entered coach, having been appointed to the position for­ Notre Dame in pre-World War I days, and merly held for twenty years by the late George played on the 1915-16-17 baseball teams. His Keogan. feat of hitting three home runs in one game in 1917 to beat Michigan is still talked about when­ HUGH J. DEVORE ever Notre Dame fans gather for talkfests. Kline passed up several big league offers to enlist in the Army in 1917, and spent 1918 and 1919 over­ A native of New Jersey, where he starred in seas.